Chapter 528 This is how the world should be, isn’t it? A conversation spanning nineteen hundred years!
Ying Chengyu said in a low voice: "I feel deeply that the whole world is trapped by food and grass during this foreign war."
"And our country, Great Qin, is especially in trouble!"
"I have gone on expeditions many times, and each expedition lasted several times longer than the original military strategy. This also caused my Daqin's food and grass to become increasingly overwhelmed!"
"It actually caused heavy rains to fall on me. The Qin Dynasty did not have much food left to provide disaster relief.”
"As a result, I, the head of Qin Dynasty and Guizhou Province, may be displaced and die of cold and hunger just after encountering a minor disaster!"
Food cannot appear out of thin air from the ground, but requires manual cultivation and harvesting.
The main force in farming is also the main force in fighting.
This leads to the fact that although Ying Chengyu has won many battles and expanded his territory, making Da Qin’s territory twice as large as the original Da Qin at the same time in history, Da Qin’s situation is still worse than that of the original Da Qin in history. More difficult!
Because Ying Chengyu’s victory was forged at the cost of a large number of young men leaving farming and fighting abroad!
The former Ying Chengyu also knew that food was very important, so he would spend time developing the Chang'an plow.
But Ying Chengyu, who has lived in two lifetimes, has never been hungry even once.
So he cannot sympathize with the hardships of those who have no food to eat. His understanding of food is that it is very important, it is the foundation of life, it can be used as money, it can be used to reward others, and it will affect others. National security, cold considerations such as restricting the pace of Da Qin's conquests.
When Ying Chengxuan saw that the villagers in Weizili, Baoshili and other pavilions would rather die than take away the grain and save the fields, Ying Chengxuan subconsciously felt helpless and resentful. anger!
But soon, this anger turned into sadness and self-blame.
Even Ying Chengyu has a sadly thick barrier with today's Guizhou leaders.
Having never experienced it, Ying Chengyu still cannot understand the desire for food and the meaning of food to those who have been struggling to the edge of starvation all year round, let alone what a stone of food means to them.
But Ying Chengyu knew.
Without his intervention, life in Guanzhong and Guizhou would still be difficult, but it wouldn’t be this difficult!
Qi Ai hurriedly handed over his hand: "Your Majesty, you have developed the Chang'an plow, which can greatly relieve our great Qin's food shortage."
"As long as I, Da Qin, cultivate and live for a few years, I will be able to accumulate enough food for your Majesty to have a hearty battle!"
Han Cang did not comfort Ying Chengyu, but looked at Ying Chengyu with eyes filled with excitement. Grateful.
Your Majesty, you finally understand my suffering!
Ying Chengyu sighed softly: "Not enough! Far from enough!"
"The Chang'an plow is mainly to assist plowing. It can be used by the Guizhou leaders to cultivate land when there are not enough cattle and young men. More acres.”
"Of course, a person's distance is limited, and the number of acres that can be taken care of is also limited."
"The Chang'an plow can indeed increase grain production, but the amount of grain that can be increased by the Chang'an plow alone is limited."
“Several years of savings can support me in the great Qin war.”
“Whenever there is a natural disaster, the people will be in dire straits!”
“My lord, see this. So sad!”
Ying Chengyu has no desire for war and killing.
Ying Chengyu does not pursue a war where he does not need to worry about food and grass and can kill without hesitation.
But all people in the world no longer have to worry about hunger and poverty!
This is not Ying Chengyu’s pursuit.
But in Ying Chengyu’s view, the world should be like that!
Xu Min listened to Ying Chengyu's words, recalled what he had just seen in the main room, and then thought about his responsibilities, and asked thoughtfully: "Isn't Chang'an Lord thinking about something in the dung field?"
Qi Ai and Cao Mao were a little surprised, wondering how Xu Min could come to such a conclusion.
Noticing Qi Ai and Cao Mao's increasingly puzzled looks, Xu Min explained: "Although the main house is stinky and filthy, it is not just filth."
"This is The officer noticed that there were several wooden barrels near the door containing soybean meal, weeds and pupa juice. "
"These are all commonly used in the dung field."
"Besides, I am a land magistrate, so I have little power."
"The Lord of Chang'an specially summoned his ministers to come here. I think it is just for farming."
In the end, Xu Min He forced out a flattering and pleading smile towards Ying Chengyu.
Xu Min desperately hoped that his guess was correct.
Because he really doesn’t want to be involved in the fierce imperial struggle!
Ying Chengxuan gave Xu Min a positive response: "You are worthy of being called Tianling!"
"Creating a road and having Chang'an plow can solve many problems."
"But Chang'an plow can solve many problems." It is of little benefit to the yield per mu.”
“I really intend to delve into the dung field in order to increase the yield per mu and boost our agricultural work in Daqin!”
Han Cang suddenly said: "It turns out that your Majesty did not suffer from brain disease due to endless foreign wars, but that you had a dungeon in mind!"
Ying Chengyu looked at Han Cang faintly: "I just chopped off the heads of hundreds of thousands of people."
"Does Han Shangqing think that my mind is so weak that it will be shaken by this?"
Han Cang hurriedly stood up and handed over his hands: "I, this is a big mistake!"
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
"It's just that I don't understand something." Han Cang He asked in confusion: "Does the dung field need golden juice?" Ying Chengyu said of course: "Of course it does!"
Ying Chengxuan's tone was natural, as if he was saying that people will die if they don't eat.
Han Cang frowned deeply, looked at Xu Min and asked, "Is it really necessary?"
Before spring plowing every year, the emperor and the kings of all countries need to lead their princes and ministers together. Chi Lei plowed the home fields several times to show the king's attention and guidance to farming. Only after the king personally cultivated the home fields did large-scale farming begin in the world.
Before the autumn harvest, the king would bring the princes and important officials to the fields to harvest.
But the kings, princes and ministers only plowed a few fields for show. Who will manage this piece of land next?
Jitian Ling!
The small field may seem ordinary, but it is the field cultivated by the king's "personal hands".
Even if the world's food production is reduced, as long as the production of this land is not reduced, the king will have reason to reprimand his ministers.
Even if the world's grain production is abundant, as long as the production of this field decreases, then...
Just wait and see the heads fall to the ground! ! !
In order to maintain the bond with the nine tribes, Ji Tian Ling is not only responsible for registering and managing the fields in the world, but he is also one of the people who knows how to farm the best in the world!
Han Cang will only believe the answer given by Xu Min.
Xu Min glanced at Ying Chengyu with a flinching look, and said with a smile: "As far as I know, today's dung fields are mostly made of silkworm excrement (silkworm excrement, that is, silkworm excrement), pupa juice, bone juice, and bean juice. The ashes made from burning dustpan, river mud, weeds and vegetation."
"Some people in Qi, Han and Chu mixed livestock filth with water and poured it into the soil to help grow mulberry trees."
"However, crops grown in dung fields in this way can easily cause the seedlings to die in the field. Even if the seedlings do not die in the field, they are easily infected by insect pests. Even if the grain can survive the insect pests, eating the harvested grain for a long time will cause the abdomen to be infested with dragonflies. (Ascaris)."
"Only when the land production has been reduced to the point of being almost useless, will anyone do this?"
"That's why I have never done this. Policy."
Xu Min said more carefully: "Chang'an Jun attacked Chu and united Qi this time. I think he had such an idea after hearing similar words." Natural disasters and man-made disasters continue every year, and there will indeed be many more people polluting the fields with livestock.”
Ying Chengyu looked at Xu Min with clear and puzzled eyes: "I have not heard similar words from Qi and Chu."
"But since it is a dung field, how can it have nothing to do with gold juice? "
Xu Min: "Ah (O_O)? "
For Ying Chengyu, shit is shit, there is no difference between the two.
Easy and cheap farmyard fertilizer requires the use of feces and urine. This is a simple truth that you don’t need to have farmed in the countryside to know.
But this is not the case for Xu Min and all the people of the Qin Dynasty!
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, excrement refers to something discarded with a dustpan held in both hands. Simply speaking, it means sweeping and discarding, and it can also be extended to mean unwanted things.
Because people all over the world often put unwanted herbs directly in the fields for fertilization, by the Qin Dynasty, dung evolved to have two meanings: pollution and fertilization, and its font also evolved to be the same as the traditional Chinese word "dung". 'The words are almost the same.
It was not until the Han Dynasty that small-scale attempts were made to use livestock manure mixed with water to fertilize fields, and manure began to be associated with feces and urine. However, during this period, the main force for fertilization was still various herbaceous plants.
It was not until the Wei and Jin Dynasties more than 800 years later that people on this land truly associated feces and urine with fertilization on a large scale, and feces began to be confused with feces and urine. But even so, the materials used for fertilization Most feces and urine also come from livestock.
It was not until the Song Dynasty more than 1,300 years later that people finally overcame the technical difficulties of using human feces and urine to fertilize fields.
The widespread use of human manure for fertilization did not come until the mid-Qing Dynasty, more than 1,900 years later!
How did Ying Chengxuan know that farmyard manure has been developed iteratively for nearly two thousand years?
Now that Ying Chengxuan and Xu Min are having a conversation spanning more than 1,900 years of technological changes, it would be strange if they can't be confused!
After Xu Min was stunned for several breaths, he asked in confusion and shock: "Why is the dung field related to gold juice?"
"Golden juice can indeed dung the fields, but it can also destroy the fields!"
"If the golden juice enters the fields, the seedlings will die!"
Ying Chengyu said without hesitation: " This is because there are many impurities in the golden juice."
"These impurities will ferment when they accumulate, and fermentation will cause heat, and the heat will burn the seedlings to death."
"I. Collect the golden juice and pile it up first, then spread it into the fields after it has heated up. This will solve the problem of the golden juice burning and killing the seedlings!”
Xu Min was slightly startled.
Although he couldn't understand why Ying Chengyu was so obsessed with stuffing human feces and urine into the fields.
But don’t say it.
Don’t say anything.
This method sounds reasonable!
Xu Min could only avoid this problem and continue asking: "Even if the golden juice does not burn the seedlings to death, it will make the seedlings prone to insects."
"In terms of farming, it does more harm than good!"
Ying Chengxiao thought about it and replied: "Golden juice will indeed breed more insect eggs. This is also the reason why people are more likely to get crickets from crops grown in fields where gold juice is excreted."
“But I think that as long as the temperature during fermentation is high enough, pests such as insect eggs and grass seeds can be burned to death, and even make them become fertilizer for the fields.”
“Of course, this is definitely far away. Far from enough to eradicate the pest. ”
"If the field is abundant, the insects will grow on their own."
"How to control the insects requires everyone to think about it!"
(End of this chapter)